DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUE FOR CLINICALLY ACTUAL TENDOMUSCULAR MERIDIANS Russian patent published in 2013 - IPC A61B8/08 

FIELD: medicine.

SUBSTANCE: invention refers to medicine, reflex therapy, manual therapy and massage, and may be used for objective diagnosis of the state of human canal-meridian system accompanying pathologies of internal organs and locomotor apparatus. It is followed by extremity ultrasound to detect hyperechoic areas in the muscles by the extremities conditionally preliminary divided on portions having a length, a depth and circumference along a longitudinal axis: forearm and shin - on the upper, middle and lower one-thirds of the equal length, shoulder and hip - on the upper and lower halves of the equal length. The muscle depth on forearm and hip is divided on three muscular layers, on shoulder and shin - on two layers. Each extremity section is conditionally circumferentially divided on 12 equal area in accordance with a clock face with a middle of a dorsal surface being 12 o'clock, of a ventral surface being 6 o'clock, a middle of the lateral surface on right extremities being 9 o'clock, a middle of the medial surface being 3 o'clock, on left surfaces - on the contrary. A sensor is applied strictly perpendicular on the middle of the examined portion of the extremity and moved circumferentially by scanning each layer. If observing any hyper echogenic inclusions, position data in each portion of the extremity segment in any muscle layer in accordance with the clock face are entered in a computer. Meridians including the muscles with these changed, as well as a degree of clinical involvement of the meridians in % - as a relation of total number of muscles or their fragments with the changes detected in each one-third or half of the extremity segment to total number of muscles in the given myotatic chain, are detected. The degree of clinical actuality for choosing the given meridian for treating the adjoining structures is high, if the involvement is equal to 50% or more, moderate - 30% to 49%, the meridian non-actual for treating - less than 30%.

EFFECT: method provides simplicity, safety, high sensitivity to dynamically changing state of the myotatic chains in the patients with pathologies of internal organs and locomotor apparatus.

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